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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 128360, member: 68&quot;]In early &#039;66 they were making &#039;64 silver and &#039;65 clad.&nbsp; Cents and nickels would have all been &#039;65.&nbsp; There were two date freezes in effect at this time; one was for silver which was expected to circulate with the clad indefinitely.&nbsp; The government thought that if the silver were discontinued it would be more likely to be hoarded, so it was continued.&nbsp; The &#039;64 date freeze was legally superceeded by the coinage act of 1965 but there was nothing keeping them from continuing production.&nbsp; The &#039;65 date freeze was not so much required by law as it was allowed by law.&nbsp; At the time the mint was intimating that it intended to make 1965 coinage indefinitely and without mintmarks.&nbsp; By around July of &#039;66 they relented and started making 1966 coinage.&nbsp; By this time there was no more silver being produced.&nbsp; Curiously there are coins of the era which can be nailed down to their mint and year of manufacture.&nbsp; For instance there are some scarce silver quarters minted in Denver in 1965 using a clad reverse die.&nbsp; There are silver quarters dated 1965 but there origin isn&#039;t known with certainty.&nbsp; San Francisco used retired SMS dies to strike coinage for circulation&nbsp; through 1967.&nbsp; There is a clad quarter dated 1965 from Philly and made in &#039;65.&nbsp; There are some rare 1965 clad quarters with Philly silver reverses but their year of manufacture is uncertain.&nbsp; There are numerous (~15) 1965 dated silver quarters made in 1965 (origin unknown).&nbsp; There are also several different transitional dimes and there have long been rumors of half dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>It really gets complicated when you start looking at the SMS coinage.&nbsp; These were begun in 1965 but initially they experimented with 1964 dated coins.&nbsp; Experimentation continued and most of these coins were actually released in sets.&nbsp; There&#039;s a real hodge podge of metals, dies, and processes used during these years and most of the transitional pieces are quite scarce or rare now.&nbsp; This wasn&#039;t true thirty years ago because you could find the SMS coins in circulation and persistence would find some of the wrong reverse coins.&nbsp; These would be much more difficult now due to heavy wear and attrition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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